Zeal of the Convert

A new biography charts a Peruvian seeker’s spiritual quest

The Prophet of the Andes: An Unlikely Journey to the Promised Landy (trans. from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman) by Graciela Mochkofsk

Morals, Meaning, and Nonsense

Ethical inquiry requires lived experience, not just logical examination

Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman

Different People, Different Stories

On the complexities of lumping psychiatric patients into categories

he Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind by Noga Arikha

More Than a ‘Mere Echo’

English versions of foreign literature must stand on their own

Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri

What a Long, Strange Trip It Was

The explosive writer who created worlds alien and mundane

I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour

A Whale of a Story

The parallel lives of   Moby-Dick’s creator and the historian who rescued him from obscurity

Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times by Aaron Sachs

California Scheming

Has one of the 20th century’s greatest unsolved crimes finally been cracked?

Who Killed Jane Stanford? A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits, and the Birth of a University by Richard White

Subatomic Inspiration

The enigmatic thinker behind the Large Hadron Collider

Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass by Frank Close

From Counterculture to Culture

How a teenage rebel rose to the summit of British literary life

A Name Not Writ in Water

Revisiting an immortal 19th-century English poet

Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph by Lucasta Miller

Who Would I Be Off My Meds

Can weaning oneself off pharmaceuticals ease the cycle of perpetual suffering?

Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistanceby Laura Delano

Who’s to Say?
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A bewildering take from a noted scholar of Christianity

Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesusby Elaine Pagels

Chapters and Verse

Looking for the poet between the lines

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetryby Adam Plunkett

Once More, Without Feeling

Can a memoir be effective when it lacks any warmth?

Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritanceby Joe Dunthorne

Electrons That Bind

The molecule at the center of everything

Carbon: The Book of Lifeby Paul Hawken

Food for Thought

A pragmatic approach to one of humanity’s gravest threats

How to Feed the World: The History and Future of Foodby Vaclav Smil

Splitting Our Sides

A new biography of a comedy pioneer

Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Liveby Susan Morrison

In the Lions’ Studio

A new dual biography turns the lens on the towering architects of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equationby Kenneth Turan

All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apartby Nicholas Carr

Old Christ Church in Alexandria. Virginia, attended by General Robert E. Lee in his youth and pictured here in 1911 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Wikimedia Commons)

Divided Providence

Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War

Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Unionby Richard Carwardine

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